Today in Sports History: Tiger Woods Becomes Youngest Player to Win 50 on PGA Tour
In 2006, Tiger Woods (age 30) becomes the youngest player to win 50 on the PGA Tour with a 3-shot victory over Jim Furyk at the Buick Open.
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1958 — Glen Davis of Columbus, Ohio, sets a world record in the 400m hurdles with a time of 49.2 in Budapest, Hungary. 1966 – Muhammad Ali knocked out Brian London in the third round to retain his world heavyweight title.
1972 – South African Gary Player won his second PGA golf championship with a two-stroke victory over Jim Jamieson and Tommy Aaron. 1978 – John Mahaffey beats Tom Watson and Jerry Pate on the second playoff hole to win the PGA Championship.
1984 – American athlete Carl Lewis wins the long jump (8.54 m), his second of four gold medals at the Los Angeles Olympics. 1991 – Debbie Doom of the United States records her second consecutive perfect game in women’s softball at the Pan American Games. Doom had a perfect game in the opening game against the Netherlands Antilles and repeated that performance against Nicaragua, winning 8-0. The 1992 Carl Louis is a 28 -foot and 5 1-2 -inch brand in the Olympics in the Olympics in the Olympics. Mike Powell is money and Joe Green Bronze. Kevin Young broke one of the oldest track and field records with a time of 46.78 seconds in the 400 meter hurdles. Bruce Baumgartner won the gold medal in freestyle wrestling at 129 kg, becoming the first American wrestler to win medals in three consecutive Olympic Games. 1994 – Jeff Gordon wins the Brickyard 400, the first stock car race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
1995 – Canadian Donovan Bailey wins the 100 meters at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, marking the first time since 1976 that an American athlete fails to medal in a major championship event. 1999 — Tony Gwynn goes 4-for-5 in his first at-bat as the San Diego Padres defeat the Montreal Expos, 12-10, becoming the 22nd major leaguer to reach 3,000 hits.
2001 — At the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada, two-time champion Marion Jones is disqualified, her streak of 42 straight victories in the 100-meter finals being ended by Ukraine’s Zhanna Pintusevic-Brock. 2006 – Floyd Landis is fired from his team after testing positive for testosterone above the legal limit in a second doping test, and the Tour de France removes him as champion.
2006 – Shelley Steinhauer wins her third Women’s British Open and her first since the tournament became a major. 2008 – Former University of Toledo basketball player Sammy Villegas is accused of fixing points during the 2004–05 and 2005–06 seasons.
2008 — Kim Terrell-Kearney wins the first professional championship match featuring two black bowlers, beating Trisha Reid 216-189 in the U.S. Bowling Congress’ U.S. Women’s Open. Terrell-Kearney collects her second U.S. Women’s Open title and third career major title.
2010 — Tyson Gay upsets the defending world and Olympic champion Usain Bolt in a race between the two fastest runners in history. Gay beats the Jamaican at the DN Galan meet in 9.84 seconds at the same stadium where Bolt last lost a race two years ago. Bolt came in second with 9.97 points.
2015 – Ryan Lochte becomes the first athlete to win four consecutive 200m medley titles at the World Aquatics Championships. Lochte finishes strong in the freestyle, finishing first in 1:55.81 in Kazan, Russia.
2017 – IK Kim won the Women’s British Open with a 2-under 71 to beat Jodie Ewart Shadoff by two shots and claim her first major title.
